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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (www.heise.de)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve's Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

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[–] 245 points 11 months ago (21 children)

HDMI Forum has fewer than 80 members and membership fee is 15,000 USD/year. Valve could spin up 80 companies, have them join the forum for a low low price of 1.2M USD and outvote remaining members to open source the entire spec.

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  • [–] 102 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    rofl, I hate billionaires but this would be peak trolling

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  • [+] -26 points 11 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I fucking hate this phrase. You have the choice to not participate and be a normal human instead of a sociopath.

    Hate the players because they perpetuate the game.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago*

    It's even more pathetic than that. They aren't just expressing their will to play the game, they are asking for approval despite it. It's similar to the "nothing personal" disclaimer which is usually followed by something with significant personal disruption.

    Most honestly expressed, they'd be, "I'm doing/about to do something that impacts you negatively, please don't retaliate against me because I don't like it when negative things happen to me."

    Edit: just noticed the commenter you replied to reversed the original saying and agrees with you.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    What does this even mean in this context

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure the saying goes, "don't hate the player, hate the game." Which implies that you shouldn't be blaming the bad actors but the bad system that causes it to be that way.

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  • [–] 162 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    This is hilariously plausible. Someone SCUBA down to Gabe and give him the idea.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    dives to 50 feet, removes tube from mouth to shout to Gabe, and fucking drowns

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    FWIW (and I know it's not the joke...) it's perfectly fine to remove the mouth piece while scuba diving. In fact it's part of basic training. You should be able to remove the mouth piece and take another one, your octopus or the one of your buddy, in case there is an incident.

    No... the real question for a good diver is how the heck you're going to say HDMI 2.1 with hand signs! /s

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    You really going to be the “akshullay” person about hyperbole?

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Does it have to be companies? Could individual people just have 15k, and join? We just need 81 new members.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately it not only has to be companies, but unless you are a producer of products that are HDMI certified already your membership will be denied. It would take a lot of fuckery to make that many corporations and not have all of their membership applications be denied. Also I'm not sure that it's even a voting democracy in the traditional sense even if you could.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    While doing that for 80 companies is not feasible I doubt all 80 members are opposed. Valve and AMD could talk to video card, monitor, laptop and handheld makers to pad the membership enough.

    As for the democracy question a quick skim of their bylaws suggests it's close enough.

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